lops the history of De Quincey's Confessions will be found in this volume. It is the bald history of an unfortunate Federal soldier, who underwent the miseries of captivity in a Southern prison. When released, broken down mentally and physically, he is prescribed mor phia to alleviate his sufferings, and so becomes a confirmed opium-eater. Nothing at all alluring or tempting is recorded in the history of his experience. It is a fearful story, and points its own moral. 12mo, cloth, $1.

REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1874. (Government Printing Office.) The annual report of the secretary, and of the executive committee, and the proceedings of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, are contained in this volume. Also a number of valuable articles on various subjects of interest to teachers, meteorologists, and correspondents of the Institution, taken from foreign journals not generally accessible. An article on "Warming and Ventilation," by Arthur Morin, is quite noticeable, as are also the number of papers on Ethnology.

TWO THOUSAND YEARS AFTER; or, A Talk in a Cemetery, by John Darby. (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.) Dr. Garretson ("John Darby"), the author of this and several other philosophical works, aims to explain and illus: trate his peculiar ideas relative to the soul and man's immortality. He imagines Socrates and the friends of Plato, who over two thousand years ago discussed the immortality of the soul, brought again together, possessed of the positivist's lore, and renewing their conversation. The positivist's ground is admitted only in a measure. While the argument tends to convince that man may live and die without a soul, it also asserts that he is an offspring of creation capable of receiving the immortal principle, but that the extent and character of his immortality depend upon himself. cloth, $1.

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THE GOLDEN TRESS, translated from the French of Fortune Du Boisgobey. (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.) While this is a very thrilling narrative of crime, it is also a wellconceived story, with an original plot, worked out in an exceedingly interesting and unobjectionable way. It is a story of Paris of some thirty years ago, and opens in a highly sensational manner, by the finding of the head of a beautiful golden-haired woman, by a number of young gallants, in a basket which they steal in a frolic from the arm of a mysterious old man. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (James R. Osgood & Co.) The second volume of the new popular edition of Hawthorne's works the Osgoods are issuing, uniform in size and style of get-up with "Little Classics." $1.25.

Allan Pinkerton. (W. B. Keen, Cooke & Co.) This story forms the third volume of the series, made up from Mr. Pinkerton's own experience as a detective. It does not lack adventures or incidents, being highly spiced with every thing of a sensational nature. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

LITERARY AND TRADE NEWS.

ESTES & LAURIAT will issue, by subscription, three new serial publications. "The Picturesque World; or, Scenes in Many Lands," is to be issued in from 40 to 48 serial parts, at 50 cents. Each number will contain one or more steel plates and 24 pages of letter-press, with wood-cut illustrations. The descriptive Dr. Leo de Colange, the editor of "Zell's Potext will be prepared under the supervision of pular Encyclopedia." There will also be an edition of Charles Knight's Popular Shakefull-page plates, by John Gilbert, together with speare," illustrated with 340 wood-cuts and 36

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THE little "Typographical Bibliography," by John F. Marthens (printed by Bakewell & Marthens, Pittsburgh), is a happy instance of what can be done in special bibliography. It is very tastefully gotten up, and brings together some 250 titles of books in the English language on printing and its accessories, with a list of periodicals. Its editor is an enthusiast in his work, doing it for love of it, and we wish there were more like him. But it is evident that there is an awakening interest in bibliography in this

country.

Elderhorst's “Blow-Pipe Analysis," Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres," McMurtrie's "Compendium of Domestic Medicine," and McMurtrie's "Woman's Medical Zell, have now passed into the hands of Porter Companion," formerly published by T. Ellwood & Coates, who have lately issued new edi tions.

THE assignment of William N. Toy and Jas.

Morrison, surviving partners of Lee & Walker, music publishers, Philadelphia, to John C. Sinclair, was made on Monday last. The liabilities are placed below $170,000; experts valued the stock on the death of Mr. Jusaid to have increased since. lius Lee, in January last, at $185.000, and it is The real difficulty was, as usual, the interest account, Mr. Lee having at the time of his death $150,000 paper out, of which two thirds was for borrowed money, at rates reaching 12 per cent.

MAJOR M. R. DELANY, of Charleston, S. C., is preparing a history of the African race in America, from their first importation by the Spaniards till the passage of the Fifteenth

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WE have received from Messrs. John Church & Co., Cincinnati, the following new music: "Under the Lilacs," by Ben Dodge (30 c.); "Julia" waltz (30 c.); "Under the Wavelets," by George W. Persley (35 c.); "Normal" schottische, by J. W. Shryock (30 c.); "Hyacinthe" mazurka, by Harry D. Jones (35 c.); and Down the Stream the Shadows Darken," by Karl Arini (35 c.). And from Mr. M. Gray, San Francisco, "When I Go Away," by Felix Marti (35 c.); "Give" song, by Felix Marti (30 c.); "Letter" song, from La Perichole, by Ad. Dorn (20 c.); March from La Jolie Parfumeuse, by Ad. Dorn (20 c.); “Ave Maria," by A. Affranchino (75 c.); “Three Roses," by Felix Marti (35 c.): Conspirators' Chorus," from Fille de Madame Angot, by Ad. Dorn (20 c.); and Night Song," by J. Vogt (30 c.).

THE current issue of Lindsay & Blakiston's "Physician's Visiting List for 1876" makes the twenty-fifth year of its publication. Like similar productions, it is a diary in handy pocket shape, so ruled as to facilitate the record of the items essential for a doctor to bear in mind, and with almanac, table of signs, antidotes for poisons, and the like, at the beginning. It seems to be conveniently arranged for its purpose, and its long publication would indicate a general appreciation of its merits.

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A NEW Volume, to supply the demand for peculiarly Christmas books, has been prepared and will be published by Mr. P. H. Gates, of this city, in handsome shape. 'Christmas, in Song and Story," will gather together most of the pretty things that have been said about this festival.

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